The ETH-ITS has three new arrivals in September 2024

We gladly announce that the institute will have two new Senior Fellows and one new Junior Fellow soon. Gigliola Staffilani and Tom Mrowka will join the ITS for the Fall semester and Oliver Edtmair will be a postdoc for up to three years. 

Tom Mrowka

Tomasz S. Mrowka is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he has been on the faculty since 1994. He studies the analytic and topological aspects of gauge theories in particular their applications to questions in the topology of 3 and 4 dimensional manifolds. He and his long-time collaborator Peter Kronheimer have received the Veblen Prize in Geometry, the Doob Prize in mathematical exposition and the Leroy P. Steele Prize for seminal contributions all from the American Mathematical Society. Mrowka is a member of the of the United States National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the America Academy of Arts and Sciences and held the Guggenheim fellowship.

Gigliola Staffilani

Gigliola Staffilani received her PhD in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1995. After holding faculty positions at Brown, Princeton, and Stanford University she joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002 and she is currently the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Mathematics. Her research focuses on the study of the long time dynamics of solutions to nonlinear dispersive equations. She uses tools from Fourier analysis, probability, and dynamical systems to understand the intricate structure of nonlinear interactions of these wave solutions in particular when they are periodic in space. Staffilani is a member of the of the United States National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the America Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Oliver Edtmair

Oliver Edtmair received his PhD in Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2024 under the supervision of Michael Hutchings. His research interests lie in and around symplectic geometry. More specifically, he investigates interactions between the fields of symplectic geometry and dynamics, for example the applications of symplectic tools in the study of area preserving surface maps. He also explores quantitative symplectic invariants, symplectic embeddings and the role of convexity in symplectic geometry.